Build a learning path from waypoints, the steps learners work through. Details describes the path. Content holds its waypoints.
Get started
- In Studio, choose Create a learning path, give it a name and description, then Create learning path.
- In your Studio path list, search filters by title as you type. Choose a column heading to sort by it, and again to reverse the order. On a phone, use Sort by.
- Open Content and choose Add waypoint. The round + button adds more waypoints and groups.
- Tap a waypoint to edit what it teaches, its goals and its look.
- On Details, choose an icon and a colour for the whole path. Learners see them once you publish.
Waypoints and groups
- A waypoint holds the words and cards learners study, and the goal they reach to finish it.
- A group puts waypoints side by side. You choose whether learners take all of them, a number of them, or the ones you name. A new group asks for any one.
- None (all optional) makes every waypoint in a group optional. The next step opens as soon as learners reach the group, and they can study its waypoints any time.
- Each waypoint has an icon and a colour so learners can spot it. Progress shows in its ring, not its colour.
- A waypoint's menu has Duplicate, which copies its settings without its words or cards.
- On the Goals or Practice tab, Apply to all waypoints copies that tab's settings to every other waypoint. Undo takes it back, and waypoints a setting doesn't fit are skipped.
- A skill's weight is its share of the exercises in a session. A skill at 60 gets about 6 of every 10. New items start in the focus skills.
- Turning an exercise type off means learners never practice that waypoint with it.
- Under Handwriting on the Practice tab, shown while it is on, Kana, Kanji and Words choose what learners write on that waypoint, and Words up to leaves longer words out of writing. Turning the last kind off takes Writing out of the waypoint's goals; where Writing is its only goal, the last kind stays on.
- Every goal needs an exercise type every learner can use. Pro skills work as exposure skills, and Pro exercise types work beside one everyone can use.
Text and reading aids
- Pick the main display, and whether furigana, romaji and pronunciation show. Romaji shows no Japanese characters.
- Leave any of them on Auto to let each learner's own settings decide it. eevy decides when they haven't chosen.
- Turn off Learners can change text & reading aids to lock your choices in that waypoint. Auto settings stay the learner's. Otherwise your choices are a suggestion.
- Reading and typing need Japanese characters, so they're not offered while a waypoint uses romaji.
- Learners see pronunciation in the style they chose in Preferences. Katakana shows as English sounds in a romaji waypoint.
Moving and selecting
- Drag a row by its handle, or use its menu to move it up, down or out of a group.
- Tap the dot between two waypoints to insert a new one there.
- Choose Select, tap the waypoints you want, then Group selected. Done turns selecting off.
Keyboard commands
These work in Content, on the waypoint list.
- Tabor Shift + Tab : Enter and leave the list
- ↑or ↓ : Move focus up or down
- Homeor End : First, last
- Enteror Space : Open the inspector for the focused waypoint or group
- Shift + ↑or Shift + ↓ : Turn selection on and extend it
- Alt + ↑or Alt + ↓ : Move the focused waypoint or group one position
- Alt + → : Move the focused waypoint into the adjacent group
- Alt + ← : Move the focused member out of its group
- A : Add a waypoint at the end
- I : Insert a waypoint above the focused waypoint, or inside its group
- G : Group the selection
- Shift + G : Ungroup
- Deleteor Backspace : Remove the focused waypoint or group
- Shift + F10or Menu : Open the actions menu for the focused waypoint or group
- Ctrl/Cmd + Zor Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z : Undo, redo
- Ctrl/Cmd + S : Save now
- ? : Show the keyboard commands
- Esc : Cancel a drag, clear the selection, leave selection mode, or close the inspector
Saving and publishing
- Your work saves as you go. The badge next to the title says Saved, Saving or Offline.
- If a save does not go through, the badge says Unsaved changes. Press Try again to send it again.
- Learners only see your learning path after you choose Publish.
- Each time you publish, you can set Public and Allow copies right in the publish window.
- Publish is greyed out until there is something to publish: a learning path you have never published, or changes you have not published yet.
- Unpublished changes means you edited the learning path since you last published. Publish again to share them.
- Discard changes puts your learning path back to what learners see now.
- Preview shows the learning path the way learners will see it.
- Time on Details is a range at about 15 minutes a day, for a learner who can use every exercise type you leave on: the short end for one who gets everything right, the long end for one who hesitates.
Made private by a moderator
- The Public switch is locked, and the reason shows under it.
- You can still study and edit your learning path.
- Choose Ask for a review to send our moderation team an optional note.
- You hear back either way. If the review unlocks it, you can make it public again.
Things to fix
- eevy checks your learning path as you edit. The alert at the top of Details lists anything to look at.
- Errors must be fixed before you publish, such as a waypoint with nothing in it.
- Warnings are suggestions. You can publish with them.
- Tap a line in the list to jump to the place it names.
Collections in a waypoint
- A waypoint gets its words from the collections you add to it.
- When a collection changes, the editor shows what changed. Tick what you want and skip the rest.
- Removing a collection takes out words that come only from it.
- A word can teach just some of its meanings. Use Change meaning or Link whole word in its menu.
- Tap an item in Content, or use View item in its menu, to see its details. Hidden items open too.
Public, private and copies
- Turn on Public when you publish, or later in Details, so every learner can find your path.
- Private means only you can open it. Learners enrolled in it lose access until it is public again.
- Allow copies lets other people make their own copy of your public learning path.
- A copied learning path shows the learning path it came from at the bottom of Details.
- A copy keeps the icon and colour. You can change them on your copy.
Deleting a learning path
- Make a public learning path private before you delete it.
- Deleted learning paths wait under Deleted in your Studio path list. Restore brings one back.
- Learners cannot see a deleted learning path.
- Delete forever, in the row menu of a learning path under Deleted, removes it for good, including your learners' progress on it. This cannot be undone.
The editor needs a connection. Offline, your changes wait on screen until you reconnect.